help with perl code

From: mike (s99999999s2003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 20:57:05 -0800

hi
i have written some perl code like this

$telnetcmd << "EOF";
perl -ne "chdir(/tmp); while ($file = <*.txt>) { print stat($file); }"
EOF
print $telnetcmd;

it give me some errors:

syntax error at ./test.pl line 3, near "-ne"
Semicolon seems to be missing at ./test.pl line 3.
Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

what is wrong with the code...?? thanks

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